Yinan Wang

Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Biography

Dr. Yinan Wang serves as the tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received the Ph.D. degree in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech under the supervison of Dr. Xiaowei Yue. His research interest lies in developing systematic engineering-driven machine learning methodologies with applications to advanced manufacturing.

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For current undergraduate and graduate students at RPI, if you are interested to work with me on the cutting-edge ML/DL/RL projects, please feel free to send me an email or stop by my office at CII 5213.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Manufacturing
System Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

Education

PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2022

Virginia Tech
Master in Electrical Engineering, 2019

Columbia University
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Automation, 2017

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Selected Awards

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DAIS Mobile App Competition (Winner), IISE (2023)
Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd Place), IISE (2023)
IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Focus Issue on Data Science, Quality and Reliability), IISE (2023)
IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing), IISE (2023)
Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2022)
Panel Fellow, NSF CMMI Game Changer Academy (2022-2023)
FTC Early Career Grant, ASQ (2022)
Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, CIE Division, ASME (2022)
Best Track Paper Award, DAIS Division, IISE (2022)
Best Theoretical Paper Award, INFORMS 2021 Data Mining and Decision Analytics Workshop, Winner (2021)

News

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Sep. 2023: Undergraduate research assistant Mr. Aaryan Sonawane received financial support from the Undergraduate Research Program (URP) at RPI. Congratulations!
Sep. 2023: Mr. Tommy Bird, Mr. Aadit Nagori, Mr. Joseph Park, and Mr. Aaryan Sonawane joined our group as undergraduate research assistants. Welcome!
Aug. 2023: Mr. Junfeng Wu joined our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
Aug. 2023: Dr. Wang starts to serve as the Board Member at IISE DAIS Division.
June 2023: Ph.D. student Yue Zhao is one recipient of the Student Travel Grant from RPI. Congratulations, and We thank the support from the department and university!
May 2023: Dr. Wang received Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd Place) from IISE. Congratulations!
May 2023: Our developed application won First Place in the DAIS Mobile App Competition at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2023. Congratulations!
May 2023: Our work, CPAC-CNN, has been selected as the IISE Transactions Best Paper Award on Data Science, Quality, and Reliability. Congratulations to the author team!
May 2023: Our work, NP-ODE, has been selected as the IISE Transactions Best Paper Award on Manufacturing and Design. Congratulations to the author team!
May 2023: Dr. Wang served as an organizer for the Advances in Statistical Learning for Quality and Reliability in Smart Manufacturing Symposium at the MSEC 2023.
April 2023: Dr. Wang served as an organizer for the Data Science for Smart Manufacturing and Healthcare (DS2-MH) Workshop at the SDM23 conference.
Feb. 2023: Dr. Wang served as an Ad-hoc Reviewer for the NSF Panel.
Jan. 2023: Dr. Wang served as a Reviewer for the NSF Panel.
Dec. 2022: Dr. Wang is one recipient of Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement Award from RPI. We thank the support from the department and university!
Aug. 2022: Mr. Jiayu Liu and Mr. Yue Zhao joined our group as Ph.D. students. Welcome on board!